By Godwin Obi Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has called for a state of emergency in the northern part of the country over the security challenges in the region. He made the call on Wednesday at a meeting with the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 10, AliContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI No fewer than 8 persons including women and children were reportedly killed in a renewed attack by suspected armed herdsmen, on Yelewata village in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. The attackers reportedly abducted a villager and left two others injured. Chairman of Guma Local Council,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says President Muhammadu Buhari has deliberately detailed some ongoing project and completed project in South East Nigeria because of its role as a major player in Nigeria’s economic growth. Osinbajo, stated this on Tuesday at the inauguration of two completed projects in AnambraContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Federal government of Nigeria, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETfund, has approved N292.66 billion as intervention for selected public universities, polytechnics and colleges of education across the country. TETFund’s Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, said the intervention which has been okayed by the Federal Government,Continue Reading
The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hon. Emmanuel Jime hasaffirmed the agency’s readiness to collaborate with the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, to address the issue of the quality of articulated trucks used in the maritime sector as a complement to FRSC’s effortsContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Bandits have killed five locals and abducted over 50 others in Gora Namaye village in Zamfara State, police have said. The incident occurred very early on Monday in Maradun Local Government Area. While eyewitnesses said eight people lost their lives to the attack, police authorities in theContinue Reading
BY AUSTIN C. UDEOHA Oh man, what is in your pocket? Stop and search, because the pocket of the life of Achan, contained some prohibited items which later destroyed him and his family and finally prohibited him from getting into the promised land. (Joshua 7:19-25) You may be theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis appears to be far from being resolved, as a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt Rivers State Monday granted an interim order restraining the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Uche Secondus from parading himself as the party’s National Chairman.Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Katsina Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has debunked video reports making the rounds, that its men and officers denied passage of some goods to the Jibiya Local Government Area of the state. The Public Relations Officer, Danbaba Isah, in a statement said, the claimContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, as well as Nigeria’s gas initiatives, will help transform Nigeria into a gas-based industrialized nation and create a better-managed petroleum industry with more value addition for both investors and Nigerians alike. Osinbajo stated this onContinue Reading